Public Health Ontario

• ‘Highly contagious’ whooping cough subject of summer surge across Ontario

  Provincial data isn't available for June or July yet but health units across Ontario are reporting a surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough.

  Health

  Jul 31
  
• ‘Dangerous’: Ontario lab closures would put lives at risk, workers warn

  OPSEU says the proposed closures would close labs in Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, Orillia, Hamilton, Kingston, and Peterborough.

  Health

  Apr 17
  
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• More cases of measles reported in Ontario in 2024 than all of previous year

  Public Health Ontario says there have been more confirmed cases of measles reported so far this year than in the previous year.

  Health

  Mar 14
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• Measles patient had ‘close contacts’ at a York Region high school: public health

  York Region's medical officer of health says a man infected with measles had "close contacts" among students and teachers at a high school north of Toronto.

  Health

  Mar 4
• Public Health Ontario staff awarded retroactive pay as Bill 124 compensation

  The law known as Bill 124 capped salary increases for broader public sector workers at one per cent a year for three years.

  Politics

  Feb 28
• Ontario drug, alcohol overdose deaths almost doubled during pandemic, researchers say

  A new report says the number of accidental drug and alcohol deaths almost doubled in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Health

  Sep 14, 2023
• Ontario offers money to public health units that voluntarily merge

  The Progressive Conservative government in 2019 proposed consolidating the province's public health units, but put those plans on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

  Canada

  Aug 22, 2023
• Masking alone wouldn’t have eased Ontario’s respiratory virus surge in the fall: PHO document

  Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief concludes.

  Health

  Feb 6, 2023
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• New BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 Omicron subvariants growing twice as fast as BA.5: Public Health Ontario

  Public Health Ontario says the proportion of the new BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 Omicron subvariants in the province is growing twice as quickly as the dominant BA.5 strain.

  Health

  Oct 28, 2022
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• Ontario’s top doctor urges mask wearing, warns mandate could return

  Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's medical officer of health, urged people to get vaccines, boosters and wear a mask to avoid an unmanageable surge in hospital admissions.

  Health

  Oct 13, 2022